Trophies..

ReneeV
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:52:41 +0000

My D put them all in a Rubbermaid tub and her dad hauled it up to the attic…they’ll probably stay there till we move. I don’t think D is sentimentally attached to them, but I really don’t know what to do with them. One year, at the school awards ceremony where a trophy is awarded to the top student in each class, D was the top student in 6 of her 8 classes…so she has a matching set! I don’t remember the engraving, but I think it’s fairly generic - school name and academic excellence or something like that.

I have seen cute things in home decor magazines - collections of silver award cups filled with elegant cut flowers gracing a lovely mantel, but these trophies are just too tacky.

I’ve never told any of my friends this, but several decades ago, I was a county potato queen (not a Sweet Potato Queen, just a plain old potato queen)! When my mom was going through some stuff about 5 years ago, she found my old tiara and “Queen Renee” sash and called to see if I wanted them. I kind of wish I had said yes, but I didn’t. My sister’s son was staying with her at the time and had the idea to list it on eBay, and they got $35 out of it. Apparently there was more than one Renee out there with aspirations of royalty!